Word: supportable
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...complete their elective terms. However, City Manager adherents hope to have this legislative action (which was pushed through purely as a life-saver for the city hall officials) declared unconstitutional. They talked also of bringing impeachment proceedings against Mayor John L. Duvall. The Mayor, elected in 1925 with the support of the Ku Klux Klan, will shortly go on trial, along with the City Comptroller, his brother-in-law, for political corruption in the 1925 election. The Indianapolis election was generally interpreted as the end of "Klan rule" in Indiana, though there was very little organized opposition to the City...
...Cunningham's theories, the Bureau of Investigation of the American Medical Association (directed by Dr. Arthur J. Cramp) has stated: "There is not the slightest scientific evidence to support the thesis on which the Cunningham treatment rests. As independent investigators have never checked up on the subject (for reasons that are rather obvious-namely, the tremendous expense of the apparatus) there is nothing to support Dr. Cunningham's statements or theories except his own unsupported word.... It is our personal belief that Dr. Cunningham, at any rate at the outset, was perfectly sincere and honest in his belief...
Observers thought it certain that Polish Foreign Minister August Zaleski must have obtained strong assurances of support from France and Britain. This he did, presumably, at one of the secret sessions last week of the Council of the League of Nations...
...Last year the Rockefeller Foundation set out to maintain scientific research in public health affairs; to support medical education; to train health officers, laboratory workers, engineers and nurses: to organize health ices; to secure appropriate legislation; to provide money where necessary; and to stir up public opinion to support public health. Accomplishments. During 1926 the Foundation spent $9,741,474, and got these definite results...
...shared in the creation or support of various departments in state or national health services in 16 countries...